The racial politics of this film are pretty offensive: Indians are stereotyped as savages (in fact, that's the name of the villain), an evil part of nature in the west. When the white hero shoots and kills an Apache trying to reclaim his son, whom the white guy has informally adopted, you can bet the hero will suffer no legal consequences. If you can view *The Stalking Moon* in context, as a product of less enlightened times, you may enjoy the film as a better-than-average Western.